I thoroughly am disappointed at doctors. I again attempt to get my doc (read my PA) to listen to me that there’s something not right. I have been having a series of odd symptoms for years now that keep increasing in magnitude. I keep going and they keep giving me pills. At this point I don’t want to take them anymore…for in the past when I have, I get some sort of wild side effect.
My symptoms are general joint pain, specially in the neck, lumbar, fingers, knees, shoulders and ankles. Yes, I realiase that’s most of my joints barring my pelvis, elbows and toes. I also have awful headaches, weird chills where I’m either cold when everyone is hot or hot when everyone is cold. I get excruciating headaches, that start with my daily neck pain and move on to full migraines. There are days I wake up with a headache. There are also days I wake up with blurred vision and a weird trembling feeling as if I was standing on a shaking platform. I get tinnitus, which Adderall just makes it 100x louder…but without it I would have immense fatigue.
I also know I have a genetic condition (trait) that makes me anemic with a typical hemoglobing that hovers around 10 +/- 0.5. And I have a history of something called Pseudotumor Cerebri…fancy name for brain pressure, but not to be confused with hydrocephalus, which is water in the brain.
Anyhow, the doc thinks I’m depressed, and order me up with all sorts of antidepressants I never fill. I’m beginning to collect these scripts. Or they think I need opiates and babituates to control the pain…I have a pretty collection of these scripts too. My medicine cabinet looks like a pharmacy filled with all sorts of potent NSAIDs and things with codeine in it…all mostly full because I hate the side effects and refuse to take anymore…eventually I return to my routine of tylenol/advil and rest.
Once again today I return because I was nauseus and dizzy and had pain on my left side…and I had yet another headache. She decides it’s a migraine and prescribes a barbituate. Unfortunately hubby drove and insisted I fill the prescription…Something with butalbital, aspirin and caffeine. I lied about my headache being gone tonight and didn’t take it, instead asked for my typical tylenol to take the edge off.
What I keep saying to the doc (PA) is that I want to know WHY my joints hurt…WHY I have headaches and WHY I’m fatigued all the time. Finally she’s going to call the neurologist she referred me to and move my appointment to a more urgent next-couple-of-days as opposed to within 3 weeks +.
Could be the PTC return, could be I have migraines, could be it’s all in my head and they can diagnose me with that famous catchall fybromyalgia. “We know you have pain but don’t know why…try this other pill.”
It amazes me how quick they are to give out opiates and barbituates and other-ates to people they see once in a while…for all they know I abuse drugs and complain of pain everywhere. It’s no wonder people with a propensity to get addicted to things eventually do…these docs give out anything to anyone. And on top of that, things that could interact…just last month she gave me a script for Cymbalta…and today she’s giving me a barbituate… Some of us want to find out what’s wrong with us first before we try something…specially CNS interacting molecules!
Or maybe I know too much darned chemistry to accept just any molecule in concentrated dosages. I have seen these reps, I play tennis with a couple, and there is no way docs and reps have really any idea what all these molecules do and contraindications they may have…
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This seriously comes from a Carnrick Labs, Inc info sheet about Migraines.
